What It Means..
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1 : of strange or extraordinary character : odd, fantastic. 2 : of, relating to, or caused by witchcraft or the supernatural : magical. weird.
1 : of strange or extraordinary character : odd, fantastic. 2 : of, relating to, or caused by witchcraft or the supernatural : magical. weird.
Surrealism..
Magic..
Fairytale..
Superhero Powers..
Erik Johansson..
Erik Johansson (born 1985) is a photographer and visual artist from Sweden based in Prague, Czech Republic. His work can be described as surreal world created by combining different photographs. Erik works on both personal and commissioned projects with clients all around the world. In contrast to traditional photography he doesn't capture moments, he captures ideas with the help of his camera and imagination. The goal is to make it look as realistic as possible even if the scene itself contains impossible elements. In the end it all comes down to problem solving, finding a way to capture the impossible. I like Erik's work as it looks completely surreal but really cool. It looks like he needs a lot of editing to complete this kind of work and it's really cool.
Chema Madoz..
Chema Madoz uses photography to create optical illusions. Whatever that is shown, is unlike the reality of objects. At times, one thinks, “that’s not possible!” Madoz’s photographic subjects are perfectly balanced and interestingly composed to make a visual illusion. He takes at the minimum two objects unrelated to each other yet when they are kept together in Madoz’s way, they entirely and surprisingly blend as one. Often the objects are placed in visually unpredicted settings but they coincide creating new meaning altogether. A photographer from Spain, born in 1958, Chema Madoz is recognized for his monochrome surrealist images. From 1980 to 1983, Madoz attended Universidad Complutense de Madrid to study the history of art. During this time, he discovered the wonders of photography through his classes at the Image Teaching Centre. From Madrid’s Fine Arts Academy, he studied from the photography workshops as well. I like his work as it surreal, cool and welll captured. It doesn't look like a typical picture.
Brooke Shaden..
Brooke explores the darkness and light in people, and her work looks at that juxtaposition. As a self-portrait artist, she photographs herself and becomes the characters of dreams inspired by a childhood of intense imagination and fear. Being the creator and the actor, Brooke controls her darkness and confronts those fears. After studying films for years in college, she realized her love of storytelling was universal. She started photography then in 2008, excited to create in solitude and take on character roles herself. Brooke works from a place of theme, often gravitating toward death and rebirth or beauty and decay. I like Brooke's work as it is more to do with people and they have a meaning behind them and they're really well captured.
My Edits..
My Plan..
My plan is to take a picture of David's eyes and change them to a dark black colour or a vibrant neon supernatural colour. I then want to make it look like the eye is a smashed mirror. For this I'll need an image of a smashed mirror and David's eyes.
Shoot One..
Worst Photo..
This is my worst photo as David eyes are closing because of the flash and its blurry.
Best Photo..
This is my best photo as you can see the window in Katie's eyes and the colours of her eye is very clear.
Analysation..
I liked taking these photos as i could really capture the colour of their eyes. The way i would improve this is to have a better lighting system so you can really see the colour of their eyes.
Edits..
Improvement To An Edit..
I tried putting a silhouette of a couple in Katie's pupil but it didn't work very well. I opened the silhouette picture and duplicated it onto the picture of Katie's eye and put it on overlay. I then removed the surroundings of the image that didn't fit into the pupil. The image of the couple is too dark so I'm going to attempt doing it again.
An Earth Eye..
My idea didn't work as the pupil was too dark so I got an image of the earth an put it onto the eye and took away half it. Then I put it on overlay.
My Idea..
My idea is that I want to take pictures of David's hands and use my sky pictures and get a silhouette of him like this photo but in my own way.
Shoot Two..
Worst Photo..
This is my worst photo as it's out of focus and it isn't a good shot of Katie's body.
My Edit..
Analysation..
I would improve this by having the shadow a light grey colour as i didn't know the colour of the shadow was blue due to the computer i was using had a blue filter on it and i couldn't get it off.
My Idea..
I want to make half of David's face like a skull and have the skin looked ripped.
Shoot Three..
Edit..
Analysation..
To improve this edit i would make the skeleton match his skin tone and have it so it looked like the skin was ripped and you could see the skull beneath it.
Plan
I want to take Charleighs' eyes and focus on the colour and get the colour in definition and then I want to take half of it and make it a completely different colour or put people or things in her pupil.
Shoot Four..
Analysation..
To improve this shoot i would try and improve the idea i got that it looks like Charleigh is in the rain but i would need to execute it a lot better.
Evaluation..
Weird and Wonderful was also one of my favourite topics because i got to let loose with it and try crazy ideas and execute good ideas.